John Anderson has given a tremendous review of a book by Gary Johns, The Burden of Culture: How to Dismantle the Aboriginal Industry and Give Hope to its Victims, Quadrant Books, 2022. This one goes to the core of the Voice issue, since Johns is critical of the existing Aboriginal industry itself, which wastes billions funding elites, while a small but vitally important sector of Aborigines, mainly in the outback, outside of the concerns of the inner-city New Class elites, suffer deprivation. If the present Aboriginal industry has not helped the Aboriginal people who need it most now, and billions were given for them to do so, the even more extravagant Voice will fail spectacularly. It is a compelling argument that people need to be making now. The prime minister has not shown how changing the constitution for the Voice will do what should be done now, and could be quickly done by legislation. So, there is a hidden agenda.
Clearly the Voice is yet another New Class moral high ground posturing which in its racially discriminatory way, does nothing to help the people it claims to be helping, but everything to enrich those of the New Class who have fed off of vast public money for decades, and now look towards the Voice as the new gravy train.